What's your story? What are you trying to heal?

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I was thinking it might be a good idea for each of us to

post what sort of symptoms, disorders and afflictions we are trying

to heal. I imagine there is quite a variety and I think it might be

helpful to point those out to each other. Sometimes the advice

we share may or may not be applicable if the range of symptoms

is totally different. Also, let's specify who in our family is following

a gut-healing protocol (yourself, your kids, your spouse, etc.)

I'll get it started.

I have my kids following the GAPS diet after hearing Dr. -McBride

speak at the 2007 Wise Traditions conference of the Weston A. Price

Foundation in D.C. in November. I was totally impressed by her

and bought her book. I have two children ages 2 and 4, both with a range

of food allergies. Dairy, Eggs, Shellfish for one, Nuts, Eggs, Soy and Fin Fish

for the other. They also have mild asthma but since cleaning up their diets

of processed and fast foods (which was infrequent but nevertheless there at times)

we have had ZERO asthmatic episodes requiring a nebulizer.

By the way french fries from 's caused us to go to the ER with our

2-year-old because they are fried in soybean oil. I later learned that there is a

government-issued warning in Sweden that peanut-allergic children should avoid

soybeans, even in tiny amounts because it causes the type of reaction that we

witnessed and has even caused death in several children.

http://www.wholesoystory.com/index.php?pageID=Excerpt1

Getting back to the topic, we are following GAPS (since Jan 1, 2008) and

taking Bio-Kult right now, although I'm looking at all the other probiotics people

are recommending that seem to be at the same level as Bio-Kult. My older child

is following the SCD diet. My 2 year old is following SCD except that she drinks

raw milk. (I just weaned her so I'm not ready to take cow's milk away too and I

feel the raw milk has helped her.)

We have never had stool issues with either child so we are not doing the SCD

intro diet, or the one recently posted from Dr. McBride's response to .

We spent about a month cleaning up the non-SCD items from our diet and then

went cold-turkey on New Years Day.

I am taking Bio-Kult too, but not following the GAPS diet exactly. I don't have

food allergies but I am sure that my 10 years on the birth control pill prior to

having children, must have had a devastating effect on my gut flora. I will probably

switch myself to a cheaper probiotic solution. I'm actually following the Eat Fat

Lose Fat diet as closely as possible, so I am eating very NT and not a lot of

starchy carbs or SCD illegal things, but I'm not being as strict about it as I am

with my kids.

My husband is eats SAD except when he eats the dinner I prepare. He pays for

the Bio-Kult knowingly but isn't crazy about this whole dietary journey we're on.

I have a wonderful pediatrician and I took my kids to see her and gave her a copy

of the CD of Dr. McBride as well as a photocopy of her article in the Wise Traditions

Journal (which is almost word-for-word with the seminar). I figure at least with the

doctor's blessing my husband will go along. And he does, but he thinks I'm crazy.

Things I'm still unsure about with GAPS/SCD: Is maple sugar ok or not? Is

stevia ok or not?

Still need help with: a surefire recipe for cupcakes made with a nut flour and

no dairy or eggs and a recipe for SCD-legal cake icing.

Katy

Apex, NC (suburb of Raleigh)

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